James Gleick

No future here, as a serf propping up the plutocrat’s plaything. The Fediverse is what Twitter wanted to be all along. You can find me as @[email protected].

[James Gleick @JamesGleick]

To my friends who dipped a toe in the water at Mastodon and gave up:

Please take another look. It works. Of course it will take time to recreate your network of friends and follows, but with patience it will happen. Then the experience will be better than Twitter ever was.

[The New York Review of Books @nybooks]

James Gleick on the neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell’s scientific argument for free will https://t.co/pFJ4ngHv4x

[James Gleick @JamesGleick]

Now comes the petty tyrant, wielding his tiny whip on behalf of America’s overlords.

[If you’re still on Twitter … what would be the last straw?]
https://t.co/ywtj5XRdfs

[James Gleick @JamesGleick]

(Don’t be distracted by Threads. You don’t want the ads, and you don’t want the algorithm choosing what you see.)

Here’s a good starter guide (among many): https://t.co/mXFNFAnjS9

Here’s an invite link to the instance I’m on: https://t.co/vwpJ2RyY8o

Hope to see you there.

[James Gleick @JamesGleick]

To my friends who dipped a toe in the water at Mastodon and gave up:

Please take another look. It works. Of course it will take time to recreate your network of friends and follows, but with patience it will happen. Then the experience will be better than Twitter ever was.

[James Gleick @JamesGleick]

My friends, when you’re ready for #Mastodon—even if you think you’ve already tried it—here’s your invitation:
https://t.co/Ex6jVqUIIy

[James Gleick @JamesGleick]

@harumimiaomiao I’m glad you’ve liked my books. Considering that, don’t you think you should read the piece before calling it a “hatchet job”? It is not a hatchet job. Even our heroes are complex, with flaws, and it’s all right to look at them from different perspectives, to understand more.

[James Gleick @JamesGleick]

I wrote about Buckminster Fuller, "a crank and a charlatan and a prophet and a visionary." https://t.co/wEA1o0n3PK via @nybooks

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

President Johnson's notes for his remarks to Cabinet today 1963: "I need each of you to tell me what the problems are. . . .I want you to speak frankly, candidly....I want you all to stay on. I need you."

[The Authors Guild @AuthorsGuild]

Are you on Mastodon? Follow us at https://t.co/OrnmiosSmF

[James Gleick @JamesGleick]

I’ve seen enough. Elon Musk’s Twitter is not for me.

[James Gleick @JamesGleick]

So many of @GreatDismal’s characters are well realized in this adaptation of The Peripheral, but none more indelibly than Alexandra Billings as Inspector Lowbeer. She owns every scene. As the inspector should.

[The Peripheral @ThePeripheralPV]

Time to meet the one and only, Inspector Lowbeer.

Stream episode 1-6 of #ThePeripheral, exclusively on @PrimeVideo.

[James Gleick @JamesGleick]

@mat_johnson Put your Mastodon thingee in your Twitter profile so people can follow you there.

[James Gleick @JamesGleick]

@sc101_101 You actually think Musk allowed that “poll” to play out without interference? You think there was ever going to be a scenario where he said, “OK, the people have spoken and Trump is not welcome here”?

Impossible.

[James Gleick @JamesGleick]

Oh please. “The people.” Your filter bubble of right-wing courtiers and sycophants, you mean.

[James Gleick @JamesGleick]

@im2b @BetsyGleick I’ll look, when they allow me, but what’s the appeal of another walled garden, owned by one person, with an unknown business model (ads? algorithms to fuel engagement?)?

[James Gleick @JamesGleick]

@Shteyngart Not really, Gary. There’s a small initial hump to get over, is all. You don’t need an invitation. Use your web browser (not the app). Choose any server (e.g. https://t.co/8ejzYci4vK). You can do it!

[Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ @tribelaw]

“Do they have a plan for what to do if they succeed in diminishing respect for the Justice Department and with it society’s confidence in the rule of law? Not likely.”

Read this and beware the MAGA jihad against the FBI and the Justice Department. . .

https://t.co/NZrHSp2MPs

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

The next question is how was this person able to buy and keep guns

[Wajahat Ali @WajahatAli]

Attack on LGBTQ+, attack on Pelosis, attack on law enforcement, threats against Boston Children's Hospital, intimidation of educators --- all individuals and groups targeted by right-wing media and GOP politicians. Connection is clear to see. Why does the majority tolerate this?

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

.@laurenboebert you have played a major role in elevating anti-LGBT+ hate rhetoric and anti-trans lies while spending your time in Congress blocking even the most common sense gun safety laws.

You don’t get to “thoughts and prayers” your way out of this. Look inward and change.